A wierd tale - death on the Zephyr

[conrailman]

They should have put him the Baggage Car to Chicago when he die?

[garr]

Brings back memories of "Weekend at Bernie's".

Jay

[Limitedclear]

"...So when hed finished speakin, he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep..."

                                               -The Gambler

                                                Kenny Rogers

Hmmmmmmm...

LC

[Poppa_Zit]

The poor woman lives in Grays Lake.  An upscale community of fairly expenisve housing.  Definitely in the upper third in the Chicago area.

Now I can understand the picture a little better. If the "poor" woman lived in an upscale neighborhood of Chicago, she perhaps should not have worried about what it would cost her to ship her father's body home. Could it be that she was too screwed up to do what is right??

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

I think it is impossible to conclude anything about this woman's income or financial status by stating she lives in Grayslake. They also have rental apartments and some some "affordable" housing. Doesn't she already have enough problems without being dissected and analyzed here?

As of the census of 2000, there were 18,506 people, 6,503 households, and 4,948 families residing in the village of Grayslake. The median income for a household in the village was $73,143, and the median income for a family was $81,503. Males had a median income of $60,857 versus $37,839 for females. The per capita income for the village was $28,898. About 2.4% of families and 3.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.7% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

Now I can understand the picture a little better. If the "poor" woman lived in an upscale neighborhood of Chicago, she perhaps should not have worried about what it would cost her to ship her father's body home. Could it be that she was too screwed up to do what is right??

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[ndbprr]

The poor woman lives in Grays Lake.  An upscale community of fairly expenisve housing.  Definitely in the upper third in the Chicago area.

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

This poor woman made the statement that she could not afford to ship her father's body back to Chicago. I would bet anything that she could have found a funeral home in either Glenwood Springs or Denver who would have been more than willing to try working something out with her. This is one of the saddest stories I have heard in a long time.

CANADIANPACIFIC2816

[Anonymous]

I just know this is going to start an urban legend.  It'll probably end up with something to the effect that the train was delayed SO long and was SO late that a passenger died of old age and rigor set in.

I'm a little surprised it took so long to find the body, though.  It says a little bit about how often train crews look in on passengers.

Erik

 

[Andrew Falconer]

This story will be recreated on the new show CSI:AMTRAK.

Andrew

[mudchicken]

(A little more common than you would think......The coroner has the fun task of getting a large body out of a small roomette, narrow doors and narrow aisles after rigor-mortis has set in. ...............yechhh!)

"20 Things To Do While You're Dead In Denver" (and Glenwood and Brush and Akron) didn't have this in the script.

[vsmith]

At least he got to finish the trip...

[Tharmeni]

Yeah, can you imagine the next customer crawling into that sleeper bed and saying "Honey, does this bed smell funny?"

[railfan619]

Ok now that's freaky. That's something you really don't hear of that to often.

[Tharmeni]

Just when you think you've heard it all.....

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060906/LOCAL/609060499